HARRY MIX STILL, O. P., who has recently attained a remarkable degree of
celebrity through the practice of the great modern school of medicine known as Osteopathy,
was born on the 26th of May, 1867, near Lawrence, Kansas, a locality famous at
that time for the scenes of strife and bloodshed which had been enacted there during and
just preceding the great Civil War.This
city, which is now one of the most peaceful and orderly towns to be found in the West, is
widely known as the Athens of Kansas, and noted for its handsome buildings and
intelligent people.

The subject of this notice is a son of Dr. Andrew T. Still, whose
biography, as well as an extended genealogy of the family, appears elsewhere in this
volume.

Harry M. Still was about seven years of age when the family located at
Kirksville, Mo.After completing the course
of study at the public school, he became a student at the State Normal School, located in
that city.His general precocity and natural
aptitude for the healing art were noticeable from an early age, and upon attaining his
majority he became a student and the leading assistant of his father, who was then engaged
in developing the science of osteopathy.He
was the first graduate of the American School of Osteopathy at Kirksville, after the
institution was chartered, in 1893, and was immediately installed as one of the
instructors therein.This position he held
for the next three years, and during two years of this time he was one of the examining
physicians of the school.The rapid
development of this science required his fathers presence at other points during the
greater part of this period, and the management of the institution devolved largely upon
our subject.He also took an active part in
founding branch establishments at other points, and was one of the pioneers in introducing
this art at Minneapolis, Kansas City, St. Louis and other places, and still retains an
interest in the infirmary at the last-named city.His
fame rapidly spread to places which he had never visited, and the demand for his services
by people in Cook County soon made it necessary for him to visit Chicago at regular
intervals, and in the spring of 1895, at the solicitation of many of the citizens of that
city and Evanston, he became permanently located here.He makes his home at the latter place and maintains offices in both cities.He is assisted by Doctors Steele and McConnell and
several other skilled operators, all of whom are graduates of the American School of
Osteopathy at Kirksville, the only institution of the kind in the world; but so great is
the reputation already acquired for this system of treatment that their combined services
are taxed to the utmost to attend the patients who daily throng their offices.These being the only places east of the
Mississippi River where the science of osteopathy is practiced, their patronage cannot
fail to increase as fast as the unparalleled success of their system of treatment becomes
known to the people.

Dr. Still was married, October 7, 1892, to Miss Nannie Miller, daughter of
Lighter and Fannie Miller, of Nevada, Missouri.Mrs.
Still was born at Lexington, Kentucky.The
Doctor devotes his time almost exclusively to his professional work, and finds little
opportunity for social recreation.He is
identified with the Knights of Pythias lodge at Kirksville, and has always been a stanch
Republican in political sentiment, though he sagely declines every overture of his friends
to enlist him in the strife for official honors.